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"It's important to the audience that shows be about something. Unless you know what it's truly about, you will never understand your show and it'll never be a good show. Never."

"One of the amazing things about writing, is that you know in comedy that it works if they laugh. It keeps everybody honest in comedy and it's why people develop strange personalities. It's just a brutal fact that if they don't laugh, you die; if they laugh, you live." 

"I'm proudest of the fact that I fell in step with an audience taste-level that I knew how to judge and deliver for consistently. It  wasn't a one-shot, it wasn't a lucky this or a that. It's a consistent body of work that has some symmetry to it in terms of why it worked and how it worked."

"Art has a deep responsibility, social, cultural, and otherwise. And that the basic motivation for the creation of art is, in a sense, to meet those responsibilities. Now, it doesn't mean that you cannot express yourself in any way you want to, but it takes place in a social context, whether you mean it to do so or not."

"It still happens often, someone tells me, 'I'm a social worker because of your Willowbrook State School expose.' It's one of the most gratifying aspects of my life. Clearly, institutionalizing people with disabilities only enhanced their disabilities, it didn't alleviate them. It destroyed lives and wasted capital. That's my proudest achievement."

"If you were playing a part where you were shot and killed and didn't move and you stayed still during that period when you were supposed to be lying down, then you were a genius. Because the instinct was that you were finished and you ran across the set to another scene. So, technically I was perfect. As an actor, less than perfect."